The Bullitt Central FFA Chapter showcased their skills during the floral design and mechanics competition on March 25. Both teams competing took first place within the Northern Ky Region of the FFA.

During the floral design contest students created four breathtaking centerpieces, four corsages’, four boutonnières, and four imaginative freestyles. All freestyle arrangements were sold at Creations by Barbara, a local floral shop.

SHEPHERDSVILLE – They look like anyone else, they could be anyone else, but their lives took turns that led them along a different path.

Three Bullitt Countians survived homelessness, maintaining better lives with help from the Shepherd’s Shelter Samaritan Program.

The Shepherd’s Shelter, Inc., is a faith-based non-profit housing initiative with a mission to prevent and end homelessness in Bullitt County. The organization offers food and shelter along with supportive services and stabilization planning toward regaining self-sufficiency.

First Baptist Church of Shepherdsville again hosted its daily service and lunch during Holy Week. The St. Aloysius choir sang during one of the services.

The Walk of the Cross through downtown Shepherdsville was held on Good Friday. The walk started at the Full Gospel Christian Center near the detention center and ended at the Melton’ food Mart on Highway 44. One of the stops included a prayer in front of the Bullitt County Courthouse.

MOUNT WASHINGTON - Shortly after Darrell Vincent graduated with bachelor’s degrees in physics and electrical engineering in 1992, he had a career at a major corporation and a bright future ahead of him.

But after a while he became dissatisfied with his job and wondered what else was out there.

“I just wasn’t happy with what I was doing,” Vincent said.

He enjoyed science and wanted to coach high school sports, so he considered becoming a teacher. And so he did.

SHEPHERDSVILLE -- By 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, more that 1,100 Boy Scouts had gathered at Bullitt Lick Middle School to attend a Merit Badge University program. Following a brief orientation session, scouts were soon seated in classrooms working on merit badges ranging from American Heritage to Woodworking with some 70 other options in between.

His students call him a friend and say he’s the best teacher they’ve ever had, his boss says he‘s one of the best teachers she knows, and Bullitt County Public Schools calls him Teacher of the Year.

In the four years Josh Meredith has been teaching math at Mount Washington Middle School he’s managed to garner admiration and respect from students and colleagues alike for his effective teaching style and close relationship with his students.